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            <h2 class="title">The Kawa language framework</h2>
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      <p>Kawa is a framework written in Java for implementing
high-level and dynamic languages, compiling them into Java bytecodes.
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      <p>The Kawa distributions includes of other programming languages
besides Scheme,
including <a class="ulink" href="../qexo/index.html" target="_top">XQuery (Qexo)</a>
and <a class="ulink" href="http://JEmacs.sourceforge.net/" target="_top">Emacs Lisp (JEmacs)</a>.
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      <p>For a technical overview of Kawa, see these
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/internals/index.html" target="_top">http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/internals/index.html</a>.
Javadoc generated <a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/api/" target="_top">documentation of the Kawa classes</a> is also available.
The packages
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/api/gnu/bytecode/package-summary.html" target="_top"><code class="literal">gnu.bytecode</code></a>,
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/api/gnu/math/package-summary.html" target="_top"><code class="literal">gnu.math</code></a>,
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/api/gnu/lists/package-summary.html" target="_top"><code class="literal">gnu.lists</code></a>,
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/api/gnu/xml/package-summary.html" target="_top"><code class="literal">gnu.xml</code></a>,
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/api/gnu/expr/package-summary.html" target="_top"><code class="literal">gnu.expr</code></a>,
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/api/gnu/mapping/package-summary.html" target="_top"><code class="literal">gnu.mapping</code></a>,
and
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/api/gnu/text/package-summary.html" target="_top"><code class="literal">gnu.text</code></a>,
are used by Kawa, and distributed with it, but may be independently useful.
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      <p>This <a class="ulink" href="gnu.bytecode/compiling-regexps.html" target="_top">article</a> explains how to
use <code class="literal">gnu.bytecode</code> to compile regular expressions to bytecode.
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